Siola wins $187,000 in PokerStars Sunday Million

This past Sunday, 7,962 players paid up via satellites and direct buy-ins to compete in the PokerStars Sunday Million, creating a prize pool of $1,592,400 with a first-place prize of $240,000.

Almost 1,200 players reached the money after six gruelling hours of play, before eventual winner Siola knocked out 10th place bubble boy Phatigue to take a monster chip lead going into the final table:

Action stopped with six players remaining as the near-full table paused to discuss a deal of some description. After various numbers being thrown around, the sextet arrived at the following figures, with $30,000 remaining for the winner:

Eventually, spitznspots and siola reached the heads-up stage with the eventual winner holding a near 2-1 chip advantage. However, spitznspots was slowly chipping his way up the leaderboard before he relinquished the lead again in a non-showdown pre-flop pot.

Eventually he moved all-in with A3, but ran into the AQ of siola and could find no help on the board.